Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
Tuesday, 6 July 2021
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House of Lords
Monday, 15 November 2021
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Moved by
Lord Blencathra
214: After Clause 124, insert the following new Clause—
<...My Lords, I am moving this amendment in my name and those of my noble friends to defend the right...
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My Lords, the problem that Amendment 214 is trying to resolve is already addressed in the very st...
My Lords, I support the amendment moved by the noble Lord, Lord Blencathra, this evening. I do so...
My Lords, Amendment 214 seeks to eliminate the risks and dangers to women in prison by the muddle...
My Lords, the noble Baroness’s speech ranged very broadly indeed. We are in fact debating a compl...
My Lords, it has to be said that when I talk to members of the general public and tell them that ...
My Lords, I just want to intervene briefly. I support this amendment. To me, it is morally wrong ...
My Lords, the late intervention by the noble Lord, Lord Cormack, was helpful in suggesting to the...
My Lords, I am afraid it is not just the Government who are split on this. With two notable excep...
We are talking about men who feel they are women but who have male genitalia being in a women’s p...
I hear the noble Baroness, and I do not call her a late-flowering human rights spokesperson or fe...
I want to respond to that because I think another point that follows from what the noble Lord, Lo...
I thank the noble Baroness for that intervention. If I offended her in any way by my remarks—
...—I apologise. Clearly one of the reasons this is so sensitive is that, beyond this Committee and ...
My Lords, this is an important debate. I think I am perfectly entitled to intervene; I do not see...
But I did not make it.
No, my noble friend did not make it, but it is made by many people. Those who are perhaps arguing...
My noble friend is intervening on me.
That is very true. My noble friend is right. I will take that and ask her to respond to me.
I am grateful for that. Forgive me, again, if I have called anybody names. That has not been my i...
My Lords, I declare an interest as chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission. As most nob...
My Lords, I had not intended to speak, but I would like to support what the noble Baroness, Lady ...
My Lords, I have been engaged in the debate on trans issues for many years and I have the scars t...
Can I just clarify one thing? Many trans people do not agree with some of the orthodoxies that ha...
I hear and understand what the noble Baroness says. However, on this amendment, I am clear. We op...
The noble Lord is looking at me and implying that I suggested that transgender men were a threat ...
I am grateful for the clarification that the noble Lord has given, and I will allow noble Lords t...
We, too, oppose the amendment. I think we all accept that transgender women are entitled to live ...
My Lords, having heard the noble Lord, Lord Paddick, perhaps I can begin with two confessions. Fi...
My Lords, it is customary for every Peer who has moved an amendment to say that it has been a wor...
Moved by
Baroness Brinton
214A: After Clause 124, insert the following new Clause—
My Lords, I have laid Amendment 214A and I thank the noble Lord, Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede, and ...
My Lords, I am pleased to add my name to Amendment 214A, along with the noble Baroness, Lady Brin...
My Lords, my name is on this amendment as well. I have the same briefing as the noble Baronesses,...
My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Brinton, twice over. First, I thank her for t...
I thank noble Lords for their contributions to this brief debate. The noble Baroness, Lady Newlov...
Moved by
Baroness Newlove
219: After Clause 131, insert the following new Clause—
...My Lords, the murders of Sarah Everard, Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman earlier this year shocked...
My Lords, I am pleased to join my noble friend Lady Newlove and the noble Lords, Lord Ponsonby an...
My Lords, I support this amendment to which I have added my name, tabled by the noble Baroness, L...
The noble Lord mentioned gender reassignment, but the amendment does not say “gender reassignment...
If the noble Lord looks at the amendment, it says
“or presumed sex or gender”.
That i...
My Lords, my point is that in arguing for the amendment the noble Lord mentioned the protected ch...
I think I was quoting from the Equality Act, but if I was not—the noble Lord here says I was righ...
The noble Baroness, Lady Falkner of Margravine, is no longer in her place. Gender is not a protec...
That is exactly what the noble Lord said. He said that gender reassignment is a protected charact...
I thank the noble Lord. If anyone else wants further clarification, I am sure other noble Lords w...
The following characteristics are protected under the Equality Act: age—something else that we do...
I thank the noble and learned Lord, Lord Falconer of Thoroton, for his lesson in equalities law. ...
Does the noble Baroness know when the Law Commission might produce its final report and what the ...
I think that was a trick question from the noble and learned Lord, Lord Falconer of Thoroton.
...It is not a trick question; I would have thought that that piece of information might be quite im...
I will tell the noble and learned Lord what I know, which is that the Law Commission said that it...
Could I ask the noble Baroness a question on her remarks? She said that sex was binary, male and ...
My Lords, that is dealt with by the Gender Recognition Act. In that case, the birth certificate i...
My Lords, I rise to support Amendment 219 and to reinforce all the powerful arguments made by the...
My Lords, I assure my noble friend Lord Russell of Liverpool that I intend to be brief. I speak t...
My Lords, time is against us, so I will be really brief. From all our debates so far, I am convin...
My Lords, we are all impatient for the Law Commission report, but I believe it is best to await i...
My Lords, I am of a mind to be opposed to the introduction of a misogyny hate crime, but your Lor...
Would the noble Baroness perhaps accept that if she was to speak to some of the senior police off...
I will try to avoid airy circles. Not long ago, I was invited to speak to a gathering of police o...
My Lords, I rise very briefly—the noble Lord, Lord Russell, will be pleased to know—to offer the ...
My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Newlove, her noble friend Lord Polak, my noble ...
My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Newlove, for so ably and comprehensively introducing h...
My Lords, the Labour Party has been at the forefront of calls to make misogyny a hate crime. Form...
My Lords, I thank my noble friends Lady Newlove and Lady Noakes for tabling their amendments. Bot...
Yes, noble Lords can take that down and quote it against me.
The noble Lord, Lord Russell o...
My Lords, considering the time, I will try to keep this short—I will not do a Second Reading spee...